The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 93

But the smell was so sharp that he began to sneeze again and again, and at last--he woke up!

Who acts: smell · What happens: be, begin, sneeze, wake up

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sharp	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smell	det
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sharp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sharp	advmod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 began	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sneeze	mark
11	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 sneeze	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 again	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 again	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 last	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 last	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sharp	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 woke	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 woke	nsubj
21	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sharp	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 woke	compound:prt
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sharp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the smell		sharp property	tree rules
2	begin	past	smell			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sneeze	to-infinitive	smell not said here	again		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be		the smell not said here			tree rules
5	wake up	past	smell			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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